What is a High Powered Rifle?

I hope this helps!

Your picture is great! 3 cheers for the new camera!!!

great article,....but i think one commenter might be a little bias...lol

i myself use to do reloads but with my memory problem i have found it best for all and safer for me to just out source the/my reloads.

look forward to more articles about fire arms both military and civilian

Mike,

If you need any advice about loads, bullets etc, don't hesitate to ask. Several of us have been doing it for some time and are always happy to help.

Mag,

Don't forget to tell the folks about the cool pistol you got for your last birthday.

We reload here, too. After shooting home made reloads, the factory ammo just doesn't cut it any longer - it's junk. The factory 7mm mag and 25-06 ammo have become outrageously expensive. We make more accurate and cheaper loads. We like making those long shots.

Good article, thanks.

Thanks and you are right people don't want to know or hear they are just apposed.

thanks for your comment and the new camera

Thanks for your comment and you will enjoy reloading not just for the money saved in ammo. You will also be able to make loads better than factory with a little practice. If not for reloading I could not have broken a clay bird at 800yards with my 30-06 last year.

Thanks and I will keep that in mind as you can't do all of the r&d yourself. I see that Berger bullits has finally released their reloading manual and am looking foreward to getting one.

Thanks for your comment. I like to make long shots also. Have you noticed any barrell wear problems with the 7mm magnum? I opted for the Remington 300 Ultra Mag due to these concerns.

Nice grouping Bruce. I have read some on the .270 though I do not currently own one. It has impressive velocities but due to the light bullit weights coeficients are not as high as a .308. Everyone I know that has one loves it and they seem to shoot very accuratly. If a guy was in the market for a .270 what would you suggest he look at? I have also heard good things about the 6.8mm is this the same. Looks like it carries a simular powder charge load to a .308.Maybe a spring project is in the making. I just sold my 300 Win Mag and am replacing it with a different model.

...Ruger American rifle

MSRP is 449 bucks...not bad at all for such a nice rifle!

Magnum, nope. I haven't noticed any problems with the 7mm mag. It is fairly light for carrying while hunting. I prefer to make my long shots with my Ruger M77 Mark II Bolt Action Stainless Steel .25-06. It heavy and not really so very good for carrying around hunting. I'm not a hunter, anyway. That Ruger reaches out there, too.

Long ago I hunted quail and dove with a 410 but it was too much trouble to clean the little buggers and there was no meat on them to speak of anyway. Shooting a 410 at quail and dove you get fairly good or you go to Mc Donald's for supper.

Remington 700's are awesome. My son has one and it is really sweet and accurate.

velocity and energy? E=mc2

That's only if you shoot someone with a laser

Not so, Mr. N.

Nice article.

My Land Canon is not a high powered rifle? I'm crushed. Though the Elk it has brought down might disagree , I guess due to velocity it just doesn't rate. Woe is me.

I still like the old venerable caliber.

THat should be E=1/2mv2

Thanks Tex I really like your Yoga class you have going on there. Think I might have to take this up. The bayonet is also a good look for hunting large North American game I have those for my AR-15 and my Mosin Naggant.

Very nice Tex. My personal preference has always been for the Springfield over the Mauser, but that's just because it feels more comfortable for me. Both shoot flat enough and straight enough so that, if I can see it, I can hit it. At least, I used to be able to. Nowdays, seeing it is more of a problem than it used to be, so I need to use a scope.

I've heard that no one really needs a bayonet, and, for the most part, it's probably right (although they do look cool). For four years in the military and about forty years as a civilian, I've never had occasion to use one for it's intended purpose.....until last year. That's when I got a raccoon in my garage. The only way to shoot it would have been to fire a .22 toward a populated area and I didn't want to get close enough to use a knife. I do, however, have the bayonet for my M-1 Carbine. Together, they make a very useful four foot long spear.

You used a bayonet on a coon? That must have been exciting. The video would have been wonderful.

Though I do not own one, I'm a big fan of the Springfield as well. I hunted Elk for a number of years with an Enfield .303. It is a '44 or '45 and one of the Lend/Lease rifles made in the US of A. A gaggle of working class hunters in the Specific NW used them and sportified them. Mine is still in its original configuration. It made it a bit heavier to tote around but it was in such beautiful shape I never had the heart to alter it. Back in those days they apparently didn't think too much of southpaw's so throwing the bolt took some time to perfect.

Ended up with a Marlin lever throw 45-70 for Elk and Muley. It's a boomer.

You skewered a Raccoon with your bayonet? Yike. No bayonets here. Lots of sharp things though. Hey, one night late at my drawing table I had my 1860 Cavalry Sabre leaning by me when a mouse ran by. Without thinking I grabbed the Sabre and skewered it. That was about a one in a million poke, I hope to tell you. At the time I had my daughters cat on the ranch. Big Dawg and cat were lying by me and both of them moved not a muscle. They just laid there watching the mouse run by. I guess they were both off duty at the time....

No, they probably figured you were going to start swinging a saber around and were simply afraid to move. I sure would have been.

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I was just over at wiki looking at the Enfield history. Very interesting. It appears that some of the 1945 models are still in service. Holy cow.

Well, truth be told, I think Dawg and Cat are just too lazy to move. I don't think my wild eyed sabre wielding self impressed them in the least.

My old Enfield is a Lend Leaser and made by Savage. There is no date that I can find. It has to be between '42 and '44 I guess. It is a beaut though. Whoever toted it around in WWII, The Big One, stamped his initials on the stock. ZF. Zebulon Focknoodle? Zefron Fish'nChips? Anyhow, I like it.

I'd still like to find a Jungle Carbine model. Just for the Heckuvit.

My first deer rifle was a Lee Enfield Mark 4 that had been about half sporterized. The forend had been cut back quite a bit but the rear stock had been left military. With the military rear stock and no weight up front, it kicked like a mule. Finally I went out and got a walnut sporter stock for it; one of the semi finished ones by Reinhard Faijen. Tamed it right down. The stock cost me $50. The rifle cost $18. I got it at a local version of Wal Mart that we had back then (1962). I had just turned 15, bought it while by myself and no one even questioned the sale. Nice and accurate, particularly with handloads; but it developed headspace problems and I started getting separated cases. The Lee Enfields do tend to have headspace problems after much use. That's because the bolt locks in the rear rather than just behind the case. The British Government knew that they would but they traded that off for a high cyclic rate of fire. With practice, you can get rounds off so fast that it sounds like a slow fire machine gun. The gun I've used most for hunting was a Remington Model 600 Carbine in .308 Win. Short, light and super accurate. When they made them, rather than make short barrels especially for them, the factory just cut a Model 700 barrel down to 19". That meant that they were relatively thick and had less vibration, thus more accuracy. I developed a handload that made it even better (almost to match level accuracy). In the 20 years I had it, I killed 35 deer from ranges of 20 feet to 450 yards. It never took more than one shot and none of the deer went more than 75 yards. I would never have gotten rid of it, but I found a Model 100 Winchester that I really liked.

I had to google the Model 100 for more information. I have seen them used in the gun store but I know very little about them. Very nice. Hmmm......I see there was a recall in 1990. Any problems with it?

Any problems with it?

Tons. Not safety problems though. They're very ammunition and dirt sensitive and mine doesn't want to extract the empties, so it jams when it fires. I've tried a lot of things, my next thing is to replace the extractor spring, since the extractor tends to jump off the case rim. It shoots beautifully, for one round. Then you have to clear the action to put the next round into the chamber. I'm thinking extractor spring since it was made in 1956 and has never had that spring replaced. It is probably weakened. Last deer season, since my son couldn't come, I cheated and carried my dad's Model 94. The bolt action Model 600 had a recall too, that was because of a safety problem on some of them. Mine never had a problem, though.

It's strange that the Model 100's had problems cycling. Winchester designed the action by essentially copying that of the M-14, and that works very well with just about everything.

Mine is the carbine model; a little shorter, no checkering and a barrel band like the M-1 Carbine. Looks a lot like the 10-22 Ruger. In fact, here's a picture of it.

I'm thinking the extractor on the Mod. 100 is way better than what you are describing. That system has been around for ages and is very dependable. You may be right, the spring may be weak or the extractor itself may have become dull and lost it's sharpness - it should be very sharp to grasp correctly. I have seen extractors get a little dirty right where they grasp the cartridge and you can't even see the tiny bit of dirt. It's a possibility. I probably shouldn't be giving you advice about your Mod. 100. You know her way better than I do.

The Mosin Naggat is a very accurate rifle. Mine is fitted with a ATI synthetic stock and a scope. Dowser bought the stock and scope mount for me for Christmass one year. The reciever had to be drilled and tapped and the bolt handle cut off and replaced to make it work. Following the manufacturers instructions I was able to do this myself. With the addition of a Timney trigger it was transformed into a real tack driver. I was able to put 5 bullits through the same hole at 200yards from the bench with the cheap ammo $94.95 for 440 rounds. I will however warn that not all ammo fits all guns. My rifle is Finnish made and has a .308 bore the Russian rifles have a .311-.312 bore. Make sure you measure your bore and bullits before shooting this cheap ammo. It is OK to shoot the .308 bullits out of the .311 bore (however accuracy will suffer)but don't shoot the .311 bullits out of the .308 bore as this will produce extremely high pressure and can damage your gun or injure the shooter. If you look at the reciever and it is hexagon shaped forged partinstead of round castingit is probably a .308 bore. I hope this information is helpful.

I know what you are saying as I have had the same results with my Mosin Naggat. Emagine my supprise when on the first episode of Top Shot a shooter missed a 16" exploding target at 100 yards 30 times. I told my shooting partner I didn't think that was possible with that rifle. So out at the range I left my scope caps closed and looking down the side of the barrell shooting at a 100yard target I put 4 shots in the 4" diamond on a rifle sight in target. The shots did favor the right side of the diamond. Sometimes it just comes down to the indian not the arrow.